Concert Talk

Pianist Maksim Mrvica straddles the world of classical and pop music, but once he was a music purist. Read more Video, Audio

We turn chicken for this week's sonic Moment of Calm. Read more Audio

New Zealand's greatest opera singer looks back on her life.  Read more Audio

Music lovers and performers across New Zealand share their memories and best wishes on the occasion of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa's 80th birthday. Read more Video

RNZ Concert's Bryan Crump catches up with the three young musicians performing at the National Concerto Competition final this Saturday in Christchurch. Read more Audio

Joe Dobson is the brains behind Undergrand, a 'pop-up piano' project which is featuring in the Auckland Arts Festival. Read more Video, Audio

Arne Herrmann from Choirs Aotearoa talks about the New Zealand Song Book He Iere Waiata, a new online resource enabling Kiwis to learn how to sing some of their favourite songs in harmony. Read more Audio

At a safe distance are there many things more calming that a summer game of cricket? Here's a bit of one for your listening pleasure. Read more Audio

Lithuanian musician Simona Smirnova is in Aotearoa for concerts with NZ jazz musicians. She came in to the RNZ studio to talk with Bryan Crump and demonstrate her instrument, the kanklés. Read more Video, Audio

Wellington-born Samoan singer Aivale Cole is back into full-time singing, and back in Aotearoa to perform in the Auckland Festival gig The O.Gs, a celebration of the first wave of Pasifika opera… Read more Video, Audio

Jazz guitarist and composer Callum Allardice has gone seriously big band for his new album, Cinematic Light Orchestra. Read more Video, Audio

Christopher Tin's oratorio about the history of flight premieres at this year's Hamilton Arts Festival. RNZ Concert's David Morriss talks with one of the performers, soprano Jayne Tankersley. Read more Video, Audio